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wildrover   
9 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

My girlfriend tells me that they have just had a big pile of snow in Moscow , and the public transport is not running today.....Seems its not only Poland and the UK that is suprised by a bit of snow in the winter...!
wildrover   
5 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

Losing the electric seems to be pretty common out in the sticks , not only is there a problem with the cables breaking under the weight of snow , but often tree branches snap for the same reason , and fall on the power lines , bringing them down....

If you live out in the wilds its always a good idea to have an alternative source of heat , power and light....

They seem to be pretty quick at fixing them though...
wildrover   
5 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

you will wake up to a freezing house in the morning,

Noo not true...if i top up my fire with wood before i go to sleep the thing is still hot in the morning....it stays hot for ages and keeps on putting out heat...

The Polish ceramic fires are a very good design...
wildrover   
4 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

How much wood is this exactly?

It varies...a trailor load is the normal sized trailor dragged behind the old Ursus tractor , and how much wood is on it depends on how stupid an English person they think you are....!
wildrover   
4 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

I asked the guy who is the forest chief how much it would cost for enough wood to see me through november to january...he said it would be about 3000 zloty...a bit over the top i think....?

in the end i got enough to last me about a month and paid 400 zloty , it was dry and burnt well , but a lot of it i had to chop up before i could get it in my heater , despite telling him i needed it for the typical Polish heater...

I have no idea what m/3 means...i can only go by what a trailor load looks like...

i did find one place that was quite cheap , but they wanted 200 zloty to deliver it 10 kms to my farm....

i am tempted to just buy a chainsaw and chop up a building thats falling down anyway....
wildrover   
4 Dec 2010
Love / Good looking Polish women with ugly men [416]

and rotten teeth,

I still don,t understand where this teeth thing came from....We English have lots of faults...but i don,t think bad teeth is one of them...?
wildrover   
4 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

how are you going to keep warm this winter? Seriousy.

As it happens i have just run out of wood....i shall be looking for another supplier very soon...The last lot i got , apart from being very expensive consisted of lots of logs that were huge , far too big to go in my Polish log heater , so i was forced to try and chop it up with my not so good axe....I did tell the guy it was for a Polish heater , but it seems he was not listening....

At the moment the house is 20 degrees inside , so not so bad , as long as i can get some more wood at a reasonable price....
wildrover   
4 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

Another 12 people froze to death across Poland on Thursday night, according to police, bringing the total killed there during this cold snap to 30.

I think the problem is that to get into some kind of shelter you have to be sober , and no alcohol is allowed , so these people choose to be out on the street where they can drink...

Alcohol lowers your body tempreture , you get drunk , fall asleep , the body tempreture drops even further when you sleep . and if you are sleeping in a bus shelter and the tempreture drops way below zero...you die...

I am sure there are places these people can go , but sadly they choose alcohol over a warm bed...
wildrover   
3 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

They are also more prone to aquaplanning.

If you want a good experiance of this , try hitting standing water on a race track in a Porsche doing 160 mph with fat racing tyres on...engine at the back , no weight on the front..!

You should have seen the mess it made when it hit the barriers...my boss was not pleased..!
wildrover   
3 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

The Finns should know a thing or two about snow , and the Yoko Jap tyres are pretty good...i have some doubts that anyone can make a tyre that will grip on the smooth polished ice once the snow gets packed down...
wildrover   
3 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

A bit about tyres...

On a nice sunny day on good asphalt the best tyre to have is one with a medium compound and very little in the way of tread...Many people think that a lack of tread means a lack of grip , but not so , a bald tyre works very well on a smooth dry road , not so well in the wet of course...Look at the old formula one cars , they had slick tyres , because thats what gives the most grip...

Of course they pull in and change tyres if it starts to rain , as a slick tyre is not good in the wet , a tyre with a tread is needed , the tread is what stops the water from building up under the tyre and causing aquaplanning this is the scarey moment when your tyres leave the road surface and ski along on the water , braking and steering does not work...!

For a road tyre you need a tyre that works well in the dry and the wet , and also one that is not going to wear out too quickly , when it comes to tyre compounds the softer the tyre the more grip it gives , but of course the softer tyre is going to wear out much quicker...

When it comes to snow you need not only a good tyre tread , but one where the tread is more widely spaced and agressive , this is not only to get a grip on the snow , but to stop the treads filling up with snow , if this happens they are no better than a slick...

I don,t change tyres on my car because its a 4 x 4 Jeep and has tyres that are made to cope with mud , any tyre that can grip in mud will be good in snow , the more agressive the tread the better the grip , but the down side is that such tyres are quite noisy when you are on clear tarmac....

The worst tyres to have on snow are the low profile tyres fitted to high performance cars , these are all but useless on snow , and its best to leave the car at home if the snow is coming down hard...for this type of car winter tyres are essential...

once the snow turns to ice it does not matter what tyre you have on...it won,t grip unless you have metal studs in it...
wildrover   
3 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

This spinning of tyres is supposed to demonstrate that you are driving a car with so much power that the tyres can,t handle it , the fact that they have to rev the nuts off their underpowered heap and dump the clutch kinda gives the game away...you can spin the wheels in a Lada if you try hard enough....

Years ago i used to collect American cars , one of them i had was an ex indy pace car with a tuned 7.5 litre engine , that thing could spin the wheels in the first three gears with a touch of throttle , and in the wet was impossible to drive in a straight line...

it was a bit heavy on fuel tho...round town it got about 8 miles to the gallon...

re the winter tyres Wroclaw....

if they are used year after year they will lose a little grip due to being harder through old age , and of course will eventually wear down enough to give no more grip than a normal road tyre...
wildrover   
3 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

You wonder just how new they are when they issue them.

I think most tyres are unused when sold , but if they have been stored in the wrong conditions for a long time before sale they may not grip as well due to hardening , and be more prone to failure...

Formula 1 tyres are an art , a race can be won or lost on wrong tyre choice , and no , they don,t last long...

I competed in formula 5000 , which is whats now called formula three , for a few laps to decide grid position we would put on the softest tyres , which give the most grip , and thrash it round the track.. After this the tyres were shredded and useless..they cost 650 quid each...!

After the race the engine was pretty well shot as well...